GNU Mailutils |
|
General-Purpose Mail Package |
Official GNU Software |
Several commands discussed in the previous section save messages in
a disk file. The name of that file is either obtained from the
record
variable (recording mail) or is derived from the
first recipient of the message (saving by name).
The following commands record mails:
mail
reply
Reply
The following commands save mail by name:
Copy
Save
Mail
followup
Followup
Saving mail by name is controlled by three mail variables:
outfolder
, folder
, and outfilename
.
The first, outfolder
, is a boolean variable which, when set,
enables saving mail by name. The folder
variable defines a
directory where mail files are stored. Name of file in that directory
where the message will be saved is derived from the message
recipient2. This process is controlled by the outfilename
variable: if its value is ‘local’, the file is named by the local
part of the email (this is the default). If it is ‘domain’, the
domain part is used instead. Finally, if it’s value is ‘email’,
the entire email is used.
As a GNU extension, outfolder
can be a string variable. In
that case its value names the directory to use instead of
folder
.
The mailx
variable, if set, disables GNU extensions. In this
case, outfolder
is used as a boolean value, and file names are
derived from the local part of the email, ignoring the
outfilename
value.
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